Reposted by Sara MannsRick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 9hI want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions 391173228
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 23hOnce again, my anti-carceral principles are flexible: This is illegal & should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, with the participants in this scheme to divert your tax dollars from the designated federal programs into the pockets of Trump supporters sentenced to the limit of the law. 160
Reposted by Sara MannsCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Now there's a man who's never been pregnant! 718943
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Thisis true only about my uncle who is now 95 has been putting the new personal computer my cousin (now a retired COBOL programmer) brings over every couple of years in the basement since Windows 95. The man is a retired police chief who farms soybeans. He still doesn’t like the Internet. N of 1! 030
Reposted by Sara MannsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 298117132130
Reposted by Sara MannsCorey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You use genAI to help you program, which yields fixed code, determinate outcomes, and replicable research. You don't use it as a digital oracle. 3334
Reposted by Sara MannsSummer 🏳️⚧️ @artgirlsummer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Trump voters voted for $7 diesel and $15 beef. You're smarter than that. Vote Democrat." 165338
Reposted by Sara Mannsceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap 150107822333
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In 2000, I moved to a new city. The directions to my house from the freeway were spoken the phone to the person who was writing them down on paper, who would follow them while driving. Our brains had a space for How To Get There you can use on song lyrics or the periodic table or whatever, enjoy 151
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Trump is wrong even about tge thing he’s right about: Canada has 5 time zones & the lower 48 U.S. should too. That would solve the underlying problems with permanent daylight or standard time: people being injured & killed in the accidents that happen in the weeks after the change at a higher rate 160
Reposted by Sara MannsAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A lot of very unhappy parents of trans and nonbinary kids, too, not enjoying seeing a mob whipped up toward children 630543
Reposted by Sara MannsMadeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Critics: There cannot be a kinkier relationship at the core of a film than the romance in PHANTOM THREAD. COYOTE V ACME: …Hold my anvil. 061
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Now that I know this was started by a Texas GOP politician getting mad & sad that the kids in Stetsons throwing hook em horns were of South Asian ethnicity, let’s hear them out. Love to have JD explain how his kids should be hazed to keep America pure but he’s still mad meemaw didn’t make him study 121
Reposted by Sara MannsStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Why are all these Asians in our universities!" idk man, they read a book from time to time, I dunno what to tell you. They got whole fuckin' libraries full of them in every town in America. 635632
Reposted by Sara MannsStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026White conservatives will literally entertain ethnic cleansing before making their kid do their homework to be academically competitive. 16913154
Reposted by Sara Mannsmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand" 4866148
Reposted by Sara MannsBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time." 2349831157
Reposted by Sara MannsAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2 4768361111
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When they read out 'Bush v Gore' at SCOTUS, I felt like I'd fallen into a frozen pond. It's been 26 years; I've raised the baby who rode in the backpack to the polls to adulthood, in a country with a corrupt judiciary that stole an election for partisan gain. All Trump did was pick up Chekov's gun. 0183
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My in-laws are thriving in a community of retired people who like to complain that their adult children nearing retirement age work too much, because we don't confine our work to a place and time they understand to be "work". Bless them all. 020
Reposted by Sara MannsTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s amazing how after 40+ years of working, a retired person immediately forgets that other people are still working and cannot answer the phone at odd times of the day. “What are you doing?!” Well, it’s 10:04 am on a Thursday so I’m doing about what you used to do at this day & time. 2273937
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026While it's true that in grad school you have to cite the most insane nonsense ever published in your field to dispose of it, life is not grad school! You don't have to debate "ideas" like 'more teenagers should have babies' or 'there's nothing we can do about AI killing all humans', you can just not 140
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't remotely understand the specific racism the president was doing here but I hope the voters who inflicted this on the world are very proud of themselves 041
Reposted by Sara MannsClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026rewatching “9 to 5” for the first time in probably 12 years and if there really is a heaven I hope it’s just getting stoned with Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin I love women so much 1115866
Reposted by Sara MannsElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026One thing that i don’t see people noting about the Cornell Sun’s reporting on the rape case is that everyone who decided to take the risk and made the core decisions about what would be published is a woman 71076202
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this fumble was brought to you by Eric Schmitt, noted Protector Of Women's Sports (who didn't know DI WBB was a sport people who are into sports might get tickets for) 170
Reposted by Sara MannsEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir 241484200
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a compelling description of a social problem 031
Reposted by Sara MannsWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NEW from @accountabilityji.bsky.social and @assignedmedia.org: Reporter @billiejsweeney.bsky.social has an important story on the changing dynamics of the politics around transgender rights and issues. www.importantcontext.news/democrats-lo...importantcontext.newsDemocrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists SayInsiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights. 622069
Reposted by Sara MannsArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 178124552669
Reposted by Sara MannsTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026operationalizing “users” as people who “believe they are getting value” is sloppy. something we teach in sociology. 🤷🏾♀️ 31219
Reposted by Sara MannsJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026omg. yes, they actually have video of him at the game. when does marshall mcluhan walk out and dunk on sen schmitt? 30913170
Reposted by Sara MannsAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt. 649216773581
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They don’t know who Caitlin Clark is but they are sure the WNBA officials aren’t calling when she’s fouled by black trans players 184
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Noted Women’s Sports defender Eric Schmitt was not aware that the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes’ 2024 team featured a national phenom named Caitlyn Clark & never thought that Jack Smith, Ironman triathlete & girl dad who enjoys sports, might attend a local game to watch NCAA D1 WBB. Says a lot about Eric! 041
Reposted by Sara MannsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 274128282111
Reposted by Sara MannsI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Their idea is that this guy is some evil and single-minded political actor out to take out a former President, taking a clandestine meeting in the middle of a grand conspiracy, but he had to catch a Hawks game lol 4403
Reposted by Sara MannsPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/20265 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables 833620913
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When my HS math teacher told his colleagues in Boston that he was following his wife to Oberlin's Conservatory, one of them said: ...oh, we pronounce it Iowa Hawks, Hawkeyes, same thing 000
Reposted by Sara MannsThe Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“In addition, giraffes are now tall horses. Because that’s what they are. They’re just tall horses. Everybody knows it, they just don’t say it. I’m not afraid to say these things. And those so-called capybaras will be known as ultimate guinea pigs.” 82803193
Reposted by Sara MannsGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026I think the thing I resent most about what the tech overlords have done to the internet is that I planted a fucking garden. you literally made the internet so stressful I went outside and touched grass. i will never forgive you 641643
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So when we invade Cuba and somehow lose THAT war also, gas doubles again? I don't think a lot of people have $9/gal. 021
Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My course on social strata and social policy just started our unit on 'class', I'm sending the campaign some money to do my job of developing curriculum 😂 040